Paddleboarding
started in Hawaii.
Now, some here are
standing on boards.

By LESLIE BROWN
Staff Writer

By NATALIE JOHNSON
Staff Writer

When Lollie Groth lived in
Maui, she loved to catch waves
while surfing with her friends.
Now, living in Burton, she says
she likes to “walk” on water.
Groth is one of a growing number of Islanders who have caught
on to an emerging aquatic sport:
stand-up paddleboarding. The
Vashon Park District has even
caught the craze and now offers
two paddleboards to rent by the
hour at its kayak center.
Vashon is the perfect place to
paddle, Groth said, as its many
harbors and inlets shelter paddlers from the wind and waves.
And paddling from her home on
the Burton Peninsula, she said,
she’s often joined by seals that
swim curiously around her.
“It’s really sort of calming,” she
said. “It’s kind of like walking but
on the water, or kayaking except
you’re standing up.”
Stand-up paddleboarding originated decades ago in Hawaii when
surfers began to stand or kneel on
their boards and propel themselves with one paddle, sometimes
catching waves in the process.
The new sport made its way to the

neighbors on each side have gotten boards, too.
“Two summers ago there was
like one, and now there’s like six,”
Croonquist said. “A lot of people
are finding out about it.”
While many describe paddleboarding as calming and even
meditative, Croonquist says
it’s also fun to cut through the
water fast, and paddling quickly

Ken Maaz, a much-admired
administrator who has played a
lead role in the social services
arena on Vashon, is stepping down
from the helm of Vashon Youth &
Family Services to take a position
as the head of an Enumclaw-based
agency.
Maaz said it was a difficult decision to leave VYFS, where he has
served as the executive director
for a little more than two years.
But the offer he received from The
Ashley House, which runs five
residential homes for medically
fragile children, was an attractive
one, in part because the organization offers health insurance and
other benefits.
VYFS does not provide health
insurance to its employees. And
because Maaz has what the insurance industry considers a preexisting condition, he’s been
unable to purchase insurance as
an individual, he said.
“I’m very happy where I am. I
love Vashon,” said Maaz, who’s 57.
But the offer he received
from The Ashley House “was
substantial,” he said. “It included

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Lollie Groth, who lives part-time on Vashon, says paddlebaording on Quartermaster Harbor is relaxing.
mainland United States, and now
most surf shops and kayak retailers in the Puget Sound area offer
special paddleboards as well. The
standing paddlers — sometimes
clad in wet suits, other times in
no more than a bathing suit —
are frequently spotted on Lake
Union and at other hot spots for
water sports. Some kayak centers
even offer classes teaching people
how to do yoga and pilates on the
floating boards.

In recent years the trend made
its way to the quiet shores of
Vashon. On calm days, paddlers
can often be seen at KVI Beach,
Tramp Harbor and Quartermaster
Harbor.
“It’s becoming more and more
popular around where we are,”
said Mia Croonquist, a high
school rower who lives on inner
Quartermaster Harbor.
Croonquist’s family has a couple of paddleboards and their

In Burton, a sense of place connects people
By WILL NORTH
For The Beachcomber

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Natalie Johnson/Staff Photo

Coffee stand owner Kathy Kush, right, is an anchor of Burton.

ertrude Stein, the renowned author
and art collector who lived in Paris
most of her life, famously said of
Oakland, Calif., the place where she spent
her childhood, “There is no there there.”
America is full of placeless places, the kind
of communities or neighborhoods you could
be parachuted into and, because they are so
homogenized and soulless, you’d have no idea
where you were.

Vashon isn’t one of them. And yet there have
been losses. There used to be lots of “theres” here on
Vashon Island, by which I mean small but distinct
communities anchored
by the kinds of businesses
Posters at the Burton
and services that act as
Coffee Stand speak
to life’s many mysterthe pivots around which
ies. See Will North’s
community life revolves.
column, page 8.
But with the construction of Vashon Highway
linking north and south and the decline of the 30
steamer docks served by the Mosquito Fleet, Vashon
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A passenger-only ferry
that once served Vashon
sank off the coast of
Tanzania last week with
more than 280 people on
board. Zanzibar authorities say that as many as 144
people may have been killed
in the accident.
The Associated Press
reported last Wednesday
that the MV Skagit, which
served the Vashon to Seattle
route until 2009, sank during a regular trip from the
eastern African nation to
the island of Zanzibar.
About 70 passengers were
confirmed dead last week,
and around 80 were missing

and presumed dead as rescue operations were called
off three days after the accident.
According to the AP, the
Skagit experienced difficulties that day after sailing
into strong winds.
The Skagit was used by
Washington State Ferries
from 1990 until 2009, when
King County began to
provide passenger service
between Vashon and downtown Seattle.
WSF sold the boat, along
with its sister boat the MV
Kalama, in 2011. During
use by WSF, the Skagitâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
capacity was limited to 250

passengers.
The Seattle Times reported that the Skagit was supposed to last 25 years, so
the boat would have been
in the finals years of its
useful life. According to the
Times, WSF tried to sell
the Skagit and the Kalama
for $300,000 each, but later
sold them together for
$400,000.
The sinking was the
second ferry tragedy in
Zanzibar in less than a year.
Last September, more than
200 people were killed when
another crowded ferry sank
while traveling between two
islands of Zanzibar.

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A pair of dogs killed a ewe,
valued at $400, at Wolftown
last week, according to T
Yamamoto, who runs the
nonprofit organization on
Wax Orchard Road.
The dogs got through an
electric fence at Wolftownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
farm, where Yamamoto has
raised sheep for 15 years.
A lamb is also missing and
another injured. This is her
first loss to a dog attack.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is devastating. For
a small farmer, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a huge
impact,â&#x20AC;? she said.

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The Farmers Market is a
busy place each Saturday,
when Islanders and visitors
alike stop by to peruse a rich
array of Island-grown or
Island-crafted items, from
fresh-picked produce to
hand-carved wooden bowls.
Sales this year have surpassed previous records,
according to market manager Rebecca Wittman, who
attributes the success, in
part, to the diverse lineup of
vendors each week. Several
new merchants joined the
bustling market this spring,
adding to the variety of
what is found there, including three businesses offering food good for both body
and soul.

Tease Chocolates
Colorfully wrapped chocolate bars with exotic names
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Geishaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pleasure, Salty
Mermaid, Spicey Mayan
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; line the table in front
of Islander Julie Farrell at
the Tease Chocolates market booth. Samples are at
the ready, and truffles are
hidden away, keeping cool
under the summer sun.
The bars are Farrellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
version of some popular choices, she said:
Bittersweet chocolate, toffee and salt; milk chocolate
with toasted almonds and
mild pasilla pepper; dark
chocolate, matcha green tea
and organic puffed brown
rice. Other favorites include

Among the new vendors are Julie Farrell (left), Anu and Birbal Rana (center) and Mary and Richard Thomas (right).
pistachio butter crunch and
what she calls Ginger Lips,
dark chocolate over organic
crystallized ginger.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are only so many
ingredients,â&#x20AC;? she said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I
wanted to come up with my
own super delicious versions.â&#x20AC;?
Farrell, a certified chocolatier, began her professional life in Wisconsin as an
MBA working for General
Electric, where she expected
to be for the rest of her life.
Fortunately for local
chocolate lovers, her life
took a different turn, fueled
in part by the recession,
which landed her at a temp
agency.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;In 2008, I woke up one
day with the thought to do
something I love, and that
was chocolate,â&#x20AC;? she said.
With that, she enrolled
in a certification program,
interned at a variety of
chocolate-based businesses,
including Theo Chocolates
in Fremont, and found her
way to Vashon in 2011 with

her husband Topher Farrell,
who assists with the growing company. They had
been living in the former
Rainier Brewery in Seattle,
which is home to several
artists and has its own art
walk, for which she made
chocolate.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was a huge hit,â&#x20AC;? she
said.
That was the beginning
of Tease Chocolates â&#x20AC;&#x201D; more
of a hobby at the time than
a full-fledged business. But
with the coupleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s move to
Vashon, she delved more
fully into it, and the business
is growing. She now makes
her chocolates in the kitchen at Vashon Cohousing,
using fair trade chocolate
and organic ingredients.
In addition to the Farmers
Market, her chocolates are
available online; soon they
will be at Minglement and
a Whole Foods store near
downtown Seattle.
In the coming weeks, she
and her husband plan to
undertake a bean-to-bar

creation, meaning they
will make their own chocolate from beans, sugar and
cocoa butter, instead of relying on chocolate purchased
from other sources. Only 13
chocolatiers in the country
do this, Topher said, and
the Farrells already have
a name picked out for the
finished product: The Dark
Arts.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am not going back to
the corporate world,â&#x20AC;? Farrell
said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel like I am realizing my dream.â&#x20AC;?

Anu Ranaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Healthy
Kitchen
Sharing a booth with
Tease Chocolates each week
is Birbal Rana, who sells
healthy baked goods made
by his wife, Anu Rana.
The cookies, bars and
assorted treats are all made
with nutritious ingredients:
nuts, dried fruit and natural
sugars from honey, maple
syrup and dates. They contain no flour, dairy, sugar,

eggs, soy or preservatives,
and are â&#x20AC;&#x201D; according to
the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Facebook
page â&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x153;junk free and guilt
free.â&#x20AC;?
Anu cooks all the time
at home, she said, drawing
from a variety of countries:
Japan, the United States and
Nepal, where the couple is
from. With two children,
she routinely experiments
to find a healthy way to
feed them, and when there
is extra, she shares with her
neighbors.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;They enjoy my food,â&#x20AC;?
she said.
Indeed, friends suggested she sell her treats at the
market, and now she offers
13 types of cookies and an
assortment of other goods.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I am always making
new items all the time,â&#x20AC;? she
said.
Sometimes people will
stop by the booth, hoping to find a treat they had
enjoyed previously, only to
find it is not offered in the
dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lineup, and that has

frequently turned out well,
too, Birbal said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;They do try the new
ones, and they like them,â&#x20AC;?
he said.
The Ranas also offer their
goods at Minglement, and
the company is growing.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting nice feedback
from people,â&#x20AC;? Birbal said.
Anu is a familiar face to
many because of her job
at Thriftway. Birbal is a
hydrologist who works from
home. The two have lived
on Vashon for almost eight
years, they said, and moved
to the Island because they
have friends here.
Looking ahead, they say
they will definitely stay at
the market through this
season and are still working on some aspects of the
company, such as packaging
their goods.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;People like it a lot,â&#x20AC;? Anu
said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The main thing is
that.â&#x20AC;?

Midlife Crisis Farms

A few miles away from
the market, guests who
find their way to the home
of Richard and Mary
Thomson in the Reddings
Beach neighborhood are
greeted by an abundance
of flowering gardens, but a
little exploring takes them
directly to pens of pigs,
including a multitude of
frolicking and nursing piglets.
The Thomsons will sell
some and raise others, in a
way that they say is humane
for the animals and healthier for humans. Animals
raised in large production
facilities are often confined
to crates. At the Thomson
farm, which also includes
chickens and sheep, the
animals are free to move
around outside and eat what
they would naturally.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s how it is supposed to
be,â&#x20AC;? Richard said.
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Thomsons sell their meat,
all USDA-slaughtered and
butchered off-Island, and to
broaden their selection, sell
other meat, too, much of
it raised locally, including
beef from near Olympia and
bison from Olympia and
Wisconsin.
In addition to the animals having a better life
when they live outside and
graze, the meat is higher
quality, they said. Grassfed beef has less cholesterol
than beef from grain-fed
cows, Richard noted, and
both grass-fed beef and
lamb taste much better.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sell anything
that has not been pastureraised,â&#x20AC;? he added.
The two come to the market each week and also sell
meat directly from their
home.
Initially, Richard and
Mary said they raised animals to provide food for
friends and their family,
which includes three grown
children. It became a natural
progression to the work they
are doing now, Mary said,
which also is fulfilling one of
Richardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s longtime dreams.
Richard, noting his earlier
work included international
banking and serving as a
general contractor, said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve
always wanted to farm.â&#x20AC;?

NEWS
BRIEFS
Island man collapses
during festival parade
An elderly Islander collapsed while marching in
the Strawberry Festival
parade and was transported to a Seattle hospital by
Vashon medics.
The man, a participant in
the Color Guard, was carrying a weapon and marching with several others when
he started to stagger, said
Anthony DeNatale, who
rushed out to help him.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I grabbed him and
got him to the car,â&#x20AC;? said
DeNatale, who used to
work as a volunteer firefighter in Bonney Lake. The
man turned to DeNatale

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and said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thank God you
showed up. I said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not
going to let you go down,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?
DeNatale recalled.
George Brown, assistant
chief at Vashon Island Fire
& Rescue, said the man was
taken to a Seattle hospital.
Because of confidentiality
rules, he couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t comment
about his condition, except
to say he was transported
â&#x20AC;&#x153;without further incident.â&#x20AC;?

County lands to get
additional protection
King County plans to
add five Vashon properties, including its newly
acquired site on Maury
Island, to a preservation
program that would provide the parks and natural
areas added environmental
protection.
An open house to discuss
the additions will be held
tomorrow from 6 to 7:30
p.m. at Dockton Park.

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Under the preservation
program â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an amendment
to the county charter overwhelmingly approved by
voters in 2009 â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the sale
of designated properties,
or any change in their use,
would require a supermajority vote by the King
County Council as opposed
to a simple majority.
Sharon Clausen, a project
manager at for the countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
parks department, said the
program is like a safeguard,
protecting land purchased
for conservation from sale
or other significant changes.
She added that the program
doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have any bearing on
rules for community use at
the parks.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The county wants to
keep (this land) in perpetuity, and one way to do
that is to make it difficult

to make changes,â&#x20AC;? she said.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Over time, elected officials change, management
changes. This is kind of like
a guarantee.â&#x20AC;?

New marine division
chief hired
Paul Brodeur, a maritime
executive with Washington
State Ferries, has been
named director of the
King County Department
of Transportationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Marine
Division.
Brodeur is a 32-year maritime industry veteran with
16 years of direct experience
working with passengeronly ferry operations. He
replaces Scott Davis, who
will retire this fall.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Paul brings a wealth of
maritime background and
experience to our Marine

Division,â&#x20AC;? Department of
Transportation Director
Harold Taniguchi said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As
he takes the helm, Paul will
oversee many exciting projects, including the acquisition of new vessels and
working to secure a replacement dock along the downtown Seattle waterfront.â&#x20AC;?
Brodeur recently completed a three-vessel new construction program ahead of
schedule and under budget,
according to a news release.
His implementation of a
biodiesel fuel program for
the state ferry fleet received
national recognition.

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EDITORIAL

Islanders will be affected by the Farm Bill

A matter of insurance

This legislation may
seem far away, but
its impact will be felt
on Vashon

Vashon Youth & Family Services is an excellent organization
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the only agency on Vashon that offers a full suite of services to
those in need. Indeed, VYFS is probably doing more to keep the
safety net intact on Vashon than any other single organization.
Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s both ironic and disappointing, then, to learn that the agency
hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t found a way to put a critical part of that safety net under
its own employees. As we learned this week when talking to Ken
Maaz about his decision to leave the agency, VYFS doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t offer
health or dental benefits to any of its employees.
If it did, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s possible Vashon wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be losing Maaz â&#x20AC;&#x201D; arguably the best administrator the organization has ever had â&#x20AC;&#x201D; to an
off-Island agency that offers a full benefits package. The impact
of his departure will be considerable. In his two short years at
the helm of VYFS, Maaz has established himself as a strong and
strategic leader, not only at his agency but in the broader social
services arena on Vashon.
VYFSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s failure to provide benefits is not an indictment of the
organization. It doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t offer health insurance because it canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
afford to. Maaz, meanwhile, a 57-year-old man with a pre-existing
condition, canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t purchase it privately.
And so it is that VYFS and the director it stands to lose are
emblematic of one our nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s greatest social crises.
At the same time, we urge the VYFS board to do all it can to find
the funds in its slim budget to provide such benefits. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only right
that an organization with a mission to foster â&#x20AC;&#x153;a community of emotionally healthy, resourceful families and individualsâ&#x20AC;? ensure that
its own employees have access to affordable health care.

The madness of our gun laws
In the aftermath of the bloody rampage at a movie theater outside of Denver, Colo., one thing is missing: A collective sense of
outrage over this countryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s insane inability to regulate and limit
gun ownership.
Both Pres. Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney offered condolences to the grieving families; both spoke passionately about
the horror of the incident. But neither addressed the glaring set of
questions that for many of us is front and center.
How is it that a young man can purchase 6,000 rounds of
ammunition by mail order? How is it that he had an assault rifle,
the same high-capacity clips that soldiers use, tear gas and combat
gear? And what rational human being could possibly suggest that
his ability to purchase what the New York Times called â&#x20AC;&#x153;tools of
terrorâ&#x20AC;? is what our nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s founders meant when they crafted the
Second Amendment?
According to a recent article in The New Yorker, the United
States has the highest rate of gun ownership in the world. Yemen
is next, with a gun-ownership ratio half of ours. â&#x20AC;&#x153;No civilian
population,â&#x20AC;? wrote Jill Lepore in her article, titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;Battleground
America,â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;is more powerfully armed.â&#x20AC;?
A strong, effective and misguided gun lobby is largely to
blame for this horrific situation, and of course the National Rifle
Association is at the heart of that lobby. And the NRA has a presence on Vashon, albeit a quiet and limited one. So while thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
little we can do to shape this distant debate, many of us can take a
small step or two. We can stand up to the NRA, quit if weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re members and call on our elected leaders to have the courage to confront
this madness.

improves and
people are
able to get
back to work
The Farm Bill is up for reauwith jobs that
thorization again this year, and
offer a livable
proposed cuts could hurt families
income, those
on Vashon that are already strugrolls will go
gling.
back down.
The Farm Bill, renewed every
Here on
five years, is a huge piece of federal
Vashon, we
legislation.
are not immune. The Vashon
Many assume the mega-bill
Maury Community Food Bank is
affects only big corporate farms
serving nearly 15 percent of our
and the kinds of government subIsland population over the course
sidies they receive. But this critical of a year. The state Department of
piece of legislation also provides
Social Health and Servicesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; mobile
a venue for developing policies
office has worked with and signed
that support smaller farmers,
up 309 Vashon households for
encourage local food production
food stamps in its visits since the
and regulate genetically modified
fall of 2010, and Vashon currently
crops and our food supply. On top
has 478 households receiving
of that, a huge percentage of the
SNAP benefits, according to state
Farm Bill is dedicated to federal
records.
nutrition programs.
In the Farm Bill this year â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an
Our nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s number one
election year â&#x20AC;&#x201D; political posturprogram to prevent hunger is
ing is rampant. One of the biggest
the Supplemental Nutrition
items under attack is the SNAP
Assistance Program (SNAP),
program, a program doing its
the federal food stamp program
designed job better than most
funded through the Farm Bill.
federal programs out there. A
Currently, about 46 million
common myth is that the program
Americans rely on food stamps
is hugely abused. The reality is
to help put food
that this proon the table. The
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it does occur,
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is most often at the retailer level.
nonprofits offering direct food
Additionally, many families
services and SNAP is one of comon SNAP are working, just not
plimentary support. Where food
enough to cover basic living
banks and meal programs leave
expenses, whether that is due to
off, food stamps can fill in and
low wages or Islandersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ability
vice versa to some degree.
to secure only limited, part-time
Food stamp benefits, while lifework, the kind of jobs that are very
saving, are not considerable. The
prevalent on Vashon.
average benefit is $1.49 per meal
The U.S. Senate recently passed
or $4.46 per day. SNAP rolls have
a version of the Farm Bill that
climbed significantly with the
contains $4.5 billion in cuts to
recession, which is the purpose
the food stamp program. The
of the program â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a safety net
House version, called the Federal
designed to help Americans during Agriculture Reform and Risk
hard economic times with higher
Management (FARRM) Act,
unemployment and underemwhich just passed in the House
ployment. As the economy truly
Agriculture Committee, is even

worse: It would cut $16.5 billion
from SNAP.
Such a huge cut would eliminate
food assistance to 2 to 3 million
low-income people and kick some
280,000 children off of the free
school meal program, where eligibility is tied to being enrolled in
SNAP. The House bill would also
reinstate asset tests and eliminate
the ability of states to adopt broader eligibility criteria.
In Washington, 80,000 people
currently receiving SNAP benefits would be dropped from the
program. It would also end a state
option to coordinate the LowIncome Home Energy Assistance
Program (LIHEAP) and food
stamp benefits. The cut in this
â&#x20AC;&#x153;heat and eatâ&#x20AC;? option alone would
equate to 234,000 households
in Washington state alone losing about $90 per month in food
stamp benefits.
On the ground, that means that
to qualify for food stamps, your
car would have to be market valued at less than $5,000 (regardless
of how little equity you may actually have in the vehicle) and you
would be penalized and dropped
(or not qualify) if you managed
to have savings of anything over
$2,000. For families needing a
hand through a tough spot, temporary job loss or health issues,
this is devastating. This is at odds
with building strength and resiliency in families to overcome or
avoid long term-poverty.
The Farm Bill may seem far
away and removed from our lives
here on Vashon. But in fact, how
Congress responds to the 2012
version will greatly affect Vashon
residents who are struggling. I
talked with some food stamp
recipients here in our community
about the impacts of even losing
$90 per month in benefits on their
families (the Senate version). The
stories were devastating.
If these proposed cuts go
through, some of our neighbors
will likely go hungry and children
will suffer nutritionally, despite
the best efforts of our community,
our food bank and our various
meal programs to ensure everyone
has food on their table.

Can I throw a few more words
on the fire regarding the proposed
Vashon Allied Artsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; performing arts center? Driving Vashon
Highway at least once a day and
being peripherally aware, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve
pondered what the brouhaha is all
about. This is an Island-long avenue of hodgepodge architecture
that really wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be affected, influenced or upset by one shiny new
building. VAA touches and serves
this entire community. They are
offering a new venue to provide
Vashon more of what we all claim
to love: artistic expression.
Is this loggerhead distinctive? Apparently not. I just read
that a four-acre, Frank Gehrydesigned memorial to President
Eisenhower in Washington, D.C.,
which would replace a concrete
swath surround-ed by parked
cars, has been held up over design
conflicts. So hang in there, VAA.
From what I see, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not personal,
itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s process.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Margaret Heffelfinger

efforts to construct the Vashon
Center for the Arts (VCA). Drama
Dock is a 36-year-old nonprofit
that has worked closely with VAA
for many years. We have used its
current 100-year-old facility to
stage many productions, and the
idea of working in a new, modern
facility has us ecstatic.
Some concerns have been
expressed regarding the size of or
even the need for such a facility,
given that Vashon High School is
building a new theater, but there
are several reasons why construction of the VCA should proceed.
The new Vashon High School
facility will be a smaller venue
and has been designed primarily as a theater and to meet other
school needs. That is how it
should be.
Vashon Island is blessed with
a vibrant community of both
visual and performing artists.
These individuals provide a range
of exhibits and performances
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; from ballet to drama, opera,
sculpture, painting, photography
and more. The VCA will provide
a home for all of these. It will
have a gallery for our visual artists and a 300-seat theater that
will be perfect for music, dance
and drama of all kinds.
The location is centrally located on the main highway, easy for
anyone to find.
The current VAA center, the
Blue Heron, is heavily used for
performances and rehearsal space

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for drama and dance. Because of
its age and design, it is inadequate
by anyoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s standards.
This opportunity is a great one
for Vashon residents, one that
will positively affect the entire
community for years to come.
A facility like this will not only
add to the quality of life for our
citizens, it will assist the business
community as well.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Gaye Detzer, president,
Drama Dock board of directors

VHS project

Letâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s use extra money
to retire bond sooner
In regard to The Beachcomberâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
article â&#x20AC;&#x153;High school project gets
infusion of state moneyâ&#x20AC;? (July 18),
this may be a naive question, but
why does the school district feel
that the state money will â&#x20AC;&#x153;provide
flexibility to spend it on other
capital projects,â&#x20AC;? as an administrator was quoted as saying,
projects that failed to get voter
approval? Could it not be better
used toward paying off the bonds
to relieve our taxpayers?
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Edra Haynes

Economy

Our country has been
stolen from the people
What has essentially destroyed
the American economy are a confluence of the 2001 Bush tax cuts
for the wealthy; the trillions wasted

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American Hero Quilts

Low Tide Celebration

American Hero Quilts sends 100 quilts each
month to Afghanistan for those wounded
in the war. Recently, because of health
concerns, we were not able to pack those
quilts up and send them off. EMT Rachel
Ehlers, firefighter Joe Wolfe and Capt. Josh
Dueweke from Vashon Island Fire & Rescue
stepped in recently and hauled the quilts up
from their storage space in the wine cellar,
boxed them, loaded them in a truck and
delivered them to The Country Store, which
began the shipping process. Chief Hank Lipe
coordinated the whole effort. These folks
truly are heroes. Thank you.

A big bouquet of seaflowers to The Beachcomber for the advance publicity for the
Low Tide Celebration and in particular for
the editorial (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a way to celebrate
today: Head to the Sound,â&#x20AC;? July 4). We had
the best event ever, more people, and more
people out on the beach learning about the
creatures that can only be seen when the
tide is at its lowest. While the local press
may be criticised for coverage of controversial matters, it is good for us to recognize it
also for positive work, and encouragement to
its readers to attend island events, patronize
island businesses, and enjoy each other in
an island setting. The five tons of sand in the
lighthouse is a small price to pay for such a
great event. Thanks for the help.

Sue Nebeker, American Hero Quilts

Thank you for your gift
Vashon Park District, on July 20, gladly accepted a substantial donation from Islander
Sarah S. Church to the reduced fee fund
for swimming lessons at the Vashon Pool.
Sarahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s donation was accepted in the name
of her son, Bryan Lee Coyle, who drowned
in 1983 at age 21, trying to save a friend
from the choppy waters of Lake Michigan.
The friend made it; Bryan did not. Since
his passing, Sarah has observed the anniversary of his death by doing something
significant on that day. This year, Vashonians
who might not otherwise be able to get water
safety and swim lessons are the beneficiaries, thanks to Sarah and Bryan...and Sarah
has probably saved other mothers from that
most dreaded of parental experiences.
Susan McCabe, Vashon Park District

Capt. Joe Wubbold

Sincere thanks
My sincere thanks to those who wrote for
my nomination as grand marshal of the 2012
Vashon Strawberry Festival Parade. I am
deeply humbled and grateful to be chosen by
the selection committee and privileged to be
numbered among former grand marshals.
A very special and heartfelt thanks to Linda and
Dick Bianchi for their generous sponsorship
of the grand marshal and for inviting us to the
wonderful â&#x20AC;&#x153;Miss Lucyâ&#x20AC;? dinner at the Vashon
Heritage Museum, and then for escorting us
in the main parade on Saturday and the car
parade on Sunday.
It was great fun, and will be a very special memory for my wife Connie and I and our family.
Sincerely, Lou Engels, Engels Repair & Towing

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on our illegal and useless wars; the
egregious fraud and corruption
that characterizes our banking
system supported by the total dysfunction of our government as it
colludes with big money interests,
including the mainstream media,
to undermine the Constitution,
and the so-called American dream,
which, for all intents and purposes,
is hanging by three fingernails
onto the side of a cliff.
When I say â&#x20AC;&#x153;dysfunctionâ&#x20AC;? I
donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean that the people who
are trying to take over the world
and run it to suit themselves are
not being successful, I mean our
body politic is dysfunctional in
the sense that We the People are
no longer in control of our own
lives. We are now the subjects and
not the sovereigns of our own destiny. Our country has been stolen
from us. If we want to get it back,
voting is not going to be enough.
Of course, this is just my
opinion. Well, actually, not my
opinion exactly. My opinion is
that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s much too complicated to
assign blame to any one, two or
three things that have brought
us to this point of systemic failure. But what I said above is still
accurate. We are now a people
who live in a world of myth and
illusion. Most of us donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even
realize what weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve lost. Until we
do, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re not likely to take any
kind of action that will result
in getting it back. Cutting back
social programs especially will
not help. Please donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t take this
as an endorsement for Obama. It
most assuredly is not.

Since I restarted the VMICC
Land Use and Natural Resources
Committee, you have heard about
financial aid for septic. I knew
the deadline was July 1 and our
poorest could not afford to comply
so I kept trying to find them help.
I first asked King County for
financial help with my septic in
1992 when all the other counties
involved were helping. The county
said they tried and still canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t.
Could it have anything to do with
protecting their $10,000 septic permits and fees? Now our poorest are
being punished and fined $25 per
day until they comply. The VMICC
board is helping but still there
is still no money. I plan to have
another meeting to keep trying.
I also want to discuss the
$350,000 that is available to clean
the water. Shellfish gardens qualify
for this money and are successfully
being used in Chesapeake Bay to
clean the water, plus it has brought
back lucrative commercial shellfish
gardens. Looking at what is going
on lately, we have become an island
of beggars beholden to King County
and they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think we deserve
much. I say we use their $350,000
and part of our tidelands to clean
the water, making sure when we are
done with the cleaning we have also
built a $1 billion-per-year family
shellfish harvest that will independently support both islands forever. With a billion per year there
will be no more begging.

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Mark A. Goldman

â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Bill Rowling

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What makes the Burton Coffee Stand funny? Check out its b-board

Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m going to let you in on a
secret: One of the funniest places
on Vashon Island is the Burton
Coffee Stand.
Is this because of the vicious,
back-stabbing repartee that goes
on amongst the three resident
wise-guy New Yorkers (and their
hangers-on) during â&#x20AC;&#x153;Insult Hourâ&#x20AC;?
(8 to 9 a.m. daily)? No. Well, OK,
maybe to some degree. But as the
owner, Kathy, says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The only
people you amuse are each other.â&#x20AC;?
She is, of course, wrong. We have
the best comedy routines since
the Borscht Belt, and since most
of the comedians from that era
are dead, no one can challenge
us. A visitor strayed into the
stand one day some months ago
and she confessed: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I feel like Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve
stumbled onto a secret society.â&#x20AC;?
Or perhaps a mental institution.
But I digress.
No, the funniest thing about
the Burton Coffee Stand is its
bulletin board, which is attached
to the door to Kathyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sanctum
sanctorum of espresso-making, a
door which she resolutely closes
against the rest of us. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s for her
own protection and we do not
hold this against her.
Having made this assertion (the
one about the bulletin board; are

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you still with
me here?), let
me say that
it may take
a slightly
twisted mind
to see the
humor. I, personally, have
no problem
with that.
Notices are posted by people
announcing events or services of
interest to islanders. These are
really good people â&#x20AC;&#x201D; entrepreneurs, civic organizations and
the like â&#x20AC;&#x201D; who have no idea how
funny they are. For example,
from just this week:
Pilates For Life. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know
about you, but all I can see is a
mean-spirited county judge issuing this sentence and the desperate plaintiff screaming, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nooo,
your honor! Please! Not Pilates
for Life! Give me the electric
chair, but not THAT!â&#x20AC;?
Passport to Pain. I take one look
at that poster and I immediately
want to sign up. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you? Of
course you do. This is apparently

some â&#x20AC;&#x153;sporting eventâ&#x20AC;? in which
a group of lunatic sadists have
chosen several dozen of the most
gruesomely brutal hills on the
Island (of which there are many),
solely for the entertainment of
an even larger group of lunatic
masochist bicyclists. What great
fun, eh? Oh yeah, sign me up â&#x20AC;Ś
and while youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re at it, get me an
appointment with a knee surgeon.
Afghan Raffle. Now, like you,
I try to keep up with current
events, but I had NO IDEA things
had got so bad in Afghanistan
that they had to hold a raffle. I
thought they were doing just fine
in the opium trade, you know?
Spanish, Art, and Pie Baking
Camp. Wouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t you have loved to
be in on the meeting that came up
with this combo? Hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s someone
earnestly saying, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Look, Spanish
is Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s second language;
we need our children to be able
to understand and speak it to be
good citizens.â&#x20AC;? And then someone
else says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Yeah, thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cool, but I
think we should add art!â&#x20AC;? (What,
piĂąatas?) And someone else says,
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have the perfect idea to top this
all off: pie baking!â&#x20AC;? And they all
jump up, high fives all around,
and yell, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Winner!â&#x20AC;?
Remembering Who We Are.

idea who he is.
But while all of this weekâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
postings on the coffee standâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
bulletin board are charming, I
have an all-time favorite from
some months back:
Birthing From Within. I know
Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just a guy and maybe donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
know a lot about this whole
process, but correct me if Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m
wrong: Isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t this how it happens
anyway?

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Now this is a workshop I can
relate to. I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t know about you,
but remembering who I am gets
harder with every passing year.
Sometimes I have to dig my battered wallet out of my back pocket, put on my very strong reading
glasses and stare at the photo on
my driverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s license for a while and
then â&#x20AC;&#x201D; presto! â&#x20AC;&#x201D; I remember
who I am. Only the guy in the
picture looks much younger than
the one I see in the mirror in the
morning while shaving. I have no

art digital fabric printing company, and
Flourish Home DĂŠcor, a gallery and shop
featuring Holdenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work.
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Across Burton Drive, in the Quartermaster Innâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s remodeled dining room, Hallie
Town became the Islandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hub â&#x20AC;&#x201D; itself Aldrich has already opened Movement
an oddity among islands, as itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not on a Intelligence, a handsomely equipped Pilates
harbor.
studio in which she will also offer masOnly Burton survived this consoli- sage and other therapeutic services (www.
dation. And it thrives today. Clustered movement-intelligence.com).
around the southernmost blinking red
And any day now, Windi Pinoges will
light on the Island are the kind of enter- open her new hair salon, the Chop Shop,
prises that help define a community: a in a former storefront opposite the Burton
branch post office so small three people Shell.
make a crowd; a church, the Burton Shell
These commercial tidal shifts notgarage which, somewhat perversely, sells withstanding, two enterprises still act as
no gas, Shell or otheranchors of community
wise; a fire and rescue
continuity: the Burton
station whose drivers
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has closed, as has the bright and airy pressibly gracious, she has an encyclopeSilverwood Gallery. But Burton is hardly dic memory for her customersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; preferred
brews. Her weekend replacements â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the
on the decline.
Indeed, three new businesses are in exotic, ironic Anna and the preternatthe process of opening. In a few months, urally calm Shannon â&#x20AC;&#x201D; are similarly
in the historic Masonic Temple building skilled.
This coffee stand is no drive-through. It
that housed Silverwood, business partners
Kassana Holden, a fabric designer, and is no indoor sit-down. This is a coffee stand
Amanda Winn, a sales and marketing con- where neighbors actually choose to stand
sultant, will unveil Bergamot Studio LLC around outdoors under a canvas awning,
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end, seven days a week.
If you snag one of the four brightly painted Adirondack chairs beneath the awning
and stay long enough, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll see an almost
complete cross section of Vashonites,
although they come in distinctly segmented waves.
For example, between opening at 7 and
8 a.m. on weekdays (opening is 8 a.m. on
weekends), the crowd will be drivers of
pickups, craftsmen on their way to jobs
around the Island and, in season, teachers
on their way to Vashon schools. Between 8
and 9, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Insult Hour,â&#x20AC;? during which several semi-employed or retired local clowns
sling barbs at each other for the general
amusement of the other patrons (and themselves). Between 9 and 10 a.m., itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mommy
Hour,â&#x20AC;? when the coffee stand is overrun by
small children in prams and mothers desperate for adult conversation.
And so it goes, wave after wave, until 3
p.m. when the shutters come down and the
window is locked for the day.
As anchors go, though, none is more
firmly set in the historical and emotional
strata of Burton than the Harbor Mercantile
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; not that anyone calls it that. No, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s simply, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Sandyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Store.â&#x20AC;?
Established in 1892, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the last of what
once were 13 general stores on the Island.
But one canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t help but think it barely
breathed until Sandy Mattara came along
in 1977 to slap it into life. Big-hearted and
sharp-tongued, Sandy does not simply run
the store, she presides.
Open Tuesday through Sunday 9 a.m.
to 6:30 p.m., the mercantile is the kind
of place where you can find anything

you need, short of clothing, fresh meat
or fish: hardware for your boat; building
supplies for whatever may have broken at
home but didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t warrant a trip up town;
canned, packaged and frozen groceries;
fresh produce of the sort you always need
when more people invite themselves to
dinner than you planned and you have to
stretch the menu; a sophisticated selection of beer and wine; gourmet ice cream;
newspapers and magazines; free biscuits
and/or smoked sausage for any dog who
happens to wander in, with or without
owner; free coffee for the regulars; and
free advice from Sandy on almost any
subject â&#x20AC;&#x201D; political, financial, or personal.
If Sandyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s store doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t carry it, you
probably donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need it.
Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Burtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s secret?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Simple,â&#x20AC;? Sandy says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Burton is what
Hometown USA use to be: a place where
everybody knows their neighbors and
everybody gives a damn.â&#x20AC;?
Kathy Kush gives her own example.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have a regular customer who recently has begun to work off-Island and whose
incredibly clever dog simply ignores her
new Invisible Fence and bolts down to
Burton. Everyone knows Lola. They bring
her to the coffee stand and someone takes
her home again. Everyone cares; everyone
pitches in.â&#x20AC;?
Lawrence Durrell, the famed travel writer, once wrote, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Different places on the face
of the earth have a different vital effluence,
different vibration. â&#x20AC;Ś Call it what you like.
But spirit of place is a great reality.â&#x20AC;?
It certainly is in Burton.

Rent a Space at
Our Huge Garage Sale
Each summer, VCCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s huge Garage Sale attracts
hundreds of motivated bargain hunters.
For just $40 you can join the fun by renting a
10 x 10 space to sell all your treasures. Best of all,
you keep 100% of your sale proceeds.
Contact Naomi at 567-4421 or on-line at
naomi.goldick@providence.org to rent your space.

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Not interested in selling your treasures?
Donate them to VCC with proceeds
helping to pay for special events.
Beginning August 6th, you can bring
your donations to VCC at 15333
Vashon Hwy SW (no exercise equipment or large appliances, please).

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Deadline is noon Thursday for
Wednesday publication. The
calendar is intended for community activities, cultural events and
nonprofit groups; notices are free
and printed as space permits.
The Beachcomber also has a
user-generated online calendar.
To post an event there, see www.
VashonBeachcomber.com, scroll
to the bottom of the page and
follow the prompts.

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Story Time: Kids ages 6 to 9
are welcome for story time each
Wednesday this summer. 3 to 3:30
p.m. at Vashon Bookshop.
Daring Dreams in Times of
Magic Storytelling: Ages 4
and older will hear folktales and
legends from places such as the
Ukraine, Japan and Hawaii. Stories
will include those about ordinary
people who grow to become more
than what they seem by being
smart and brave and facing challenges. Alton Takiyama-Chung will
present the program. 2 p.m. at the
Vashon Library.
Free Film â&#x20AC;&#x201D; â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Hungry for
Changeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;: The film explores how
many of the â&#x20AC;&#x153;health foodsâ&#x20AC;? that
people eat keep them locked in
a cycle of poor health and shows
that by educating themselves,
people can take control of their
health. Vashon PRAHM is sponsoring the film. Jessica Bolding
of PRAHM will lead a discussion
following the film and will offer
a 30-day green juice and raw
foods program with classes each
Wednesday. The class is $75, but
no one will be turned away for lack
of funds. For more information
about the class or film, call PRAHM
at 463-9066. The film will be at 6
p.m. at the Vashon Theatre.

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Concert in the Park: Adrian
Xavier and his reggae band will
perform. Free. 7 p.m. at Ober Park.
See page 13 for more information.

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Story Time: Kids up to age 6 are
invited to stop by for story time
each Friday this summer. 11 to
11:30 a.m. at Vashon Bookshop.

Olympics Opening Ceremony: It
will be featured on the big screen.
Lunch will be offered for a suggested donation of $4.25. 11:45
a.m. at the Vashon Senior Center
on Bank Road.
Author Reading: Island author
Sarah Church will read from her
new book, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Good Grief: Finding
Gifts in the Grief of Losing a Child.â&#x20AC;?
The book is a memoir inspired by
her recovery from the accidental
drowing of her young adult son.
Call 463-2616 for more information. 6 p.m. at Vashon Bookshop.

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Beach members are needed for a
work party and picnic. 9 a.m. to 1
p.m. at the club house.
Walk in the Woods: A walk
through the Vashon School Districtâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s forests will be led by Derek
Churchill and Dave Warren of the
Vashon Forest Stewards to discuss
a thinning to improve its health
and safety. Some firs will also be
removed to use in the construction
of the new high school. For more
information, contact Warren at
463-9405. 10 a.m. at the northeast
corner of the Chautauqua parking
lot near the forest trail entrance.
Weekend Book Club: The group
will discuss â&#x20AC;&#x153;A State of Wonderâ&#x20AC;?
by Anne Patchett. Augustâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s selection will be â&#x20AC;&#x153;2013â&#x20AC;? by Albert
Brooks. For more information, call
Nancy Paul at 567-5606 or email
NBP812@gmail.com. 10 a.m. at a
home near town.
Book Signing: Shady Cosgrove,
author of â&#x20AC;&#x153;She Played Elvis,â&#x20AC;? will
sign books. 1 to 2 p.m. at Vashon
Bookshop.
Reconciling the Past â&#x20AC;&#x201D; The
History, Literature and Ethics
of Japanese Removal: Why did
some, including President Eisenhowerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brother Milton, advocate
in favor of internment? Why did
others, including the Seattle
Council of Churches, voice their
opposition? How has the memory
of internment affected treatment
of Arab-Americans following
9/11? Professor Robert Keller will
explore each of these questions, illuminating the debate over forced
Japanese removal and its impact
on how we view civil rights amidst
security crises today. 2 p.m. at the
Vashon Library.
Vegan Potluck: Bring a dish
made with no animal products to
share. For more information call

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Salmon Bake: The annual dinner will include music by Loose
Change and activities for kids,
such as volleyball, basketball and
a balloon artist. The cost is $15
for teens and adults and $5 for
children ages 5 to 12. Kids under 5
eat free. Tickets are available after
all masses during July and at the
Vashon Pharmacy, Windermere
and the Vashon Bookshop. 1:30
to 4:30 p.m. at St. John Vianney
Catholic Church.

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Meditation: People may attend
all sessions or just one. Jyl Shinjo
Brewer leads the group. Contact
her for more information at
josan500@yahoo.com. 7:30 to
8:15 a.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; silent sitting; 8:15 to
8:30 a.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Japanese green tea is
served and there is short stretching
or yoga; 8:30 to 9:15 a.m. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; mediation either seated or moving,
usually with live flute music. The
group meets weekly at the Hanna
Barn, 7712 Point Robinson Rd.

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version of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play â&#x20AC;&#x153;Harvey,â&#x20AC;? starring Jimmy
Stewart, will be shown with commentary by feature writer Gordon
Fisk. 12:30 p.m. at the Vashon
Senior Center.

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offers free legal advice. People
who wish to schedule an appointment to meet with a lawyer
should call the King County Bar
Association at 267-7070. 6 p.m.
Thursday, Aug. 2, at the Vashon
Senior Center.
Flower Fair: The Vashon-Maury
Island Garden Club will host its
annual fair, which features a variety of flowers grown by Islanders.
Free. Noon to 6 p.m. Friday, Aug.
3, and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday,
Aug. 4, at the Vashon Library.
Shakespeare in the Park: The
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Lavender Hill Farm will host a benefit for the Vashon Theatre and its digital upgrade from 10
a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday.
Guests are invited to picnic at the farm and enjoy 15 varieties of lavender and views of
Quartermaster Harbor and Mount Rainier. Organizers will be making lavender wreaths and
wands and serving lavender lemonade and treats. The farm store will be open with end-of-theseason bargains. Pick a bunch of lavender and get a free bouquet to go with it. Proceeds from
all lavender sales will go to the theater.
Lavender Hill Farm is located on the Burton Hill at 10425 S.W. 238th St. Call 463-2322 for
more information.
will bring â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Winterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Taleâ&#x20AC;? to
Vashon. Free. 7 p.m. Saturday,
Aug. 4, at Ober Park.
Burton Church Rummage Sale:
The church is hosting its Serendipity Sale and will offer items for
babies and children, household
furniture, vintage items, DVDs and
more. Donations may be dropped
off between noon and 1 p.m.
Sunday at the sale site. 9 a.m. to 4
p.m. Saturday, Aug. 4, and 1 to 4
p.m. Sunday, Aug. 5, at Lewis Hall,
behind the Burton Community
Church.
Dancing at Ober Park: Jesse
Lege, Joel Savoy and the Cajun
Country Revival will perform. Free.
6:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 6, at the
park.
Womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alliance to Enhance
the Rock (WATER) Meeting: The
group will continue working on
DoVEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Free as a DoVE Freedom
Dance and DoVEâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Domestic Violence Awareness Month campaign.
The meeting is open to all women
ages 16 and over. Contact Pam
Robbins at pam@jprobbins.com if
planning to attend. 7 to 8:30 p.m.
Monday, Aug. 6, at Vashon Island
Fire & Rescueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main station.
Vashon Island Youth Week:
Each year youth from Maple Valley
Presbyterian Church come to teach
Bible school then spend time with
Vashon teens. For more information, call Carol Potter at 463-6749.
Free. 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday to
Friday, Aug. 6 to 10, at Vashon
Island Community Church.
Frank Matsumoto Memorial
Salmon Derby: The public is
invited to participate. Fish must
be brought to Jensen Point to be
weighed by the judges by 1 p.m.
the day of the derby. Tickets, $10,
are available at True Value and will
also be available the morning of
the derby. Kids under 12 fish for

free. 5:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday,
Aug. 12, at Jensen Point.

CLASSES
Beginning Sewing Lessons:
Jenni Wilke offers one-on-one tutorials for people who have sewing
machines but do not know how to
use them. The cost is $35. Contact
Wilke at 697-2377 to register or
coordinate a different time. 9 to
10:30 a.m. Friday or Monday, July
27 or 30, at Common Thread.
Vashon Nature/Travel Journal
Workshop: Darsie Beck will lead
this workshop on the art and joy
of journal keeping. Students will
learn the basics of on-the-go
sketching techniques with pen
and watercolor pencils. Beck
will share his journal-sketching
methodology and the best travel
sketching gear to carry, whether
exploring the Island or on a European travel adventure. Tuiton is
$60. Register by contacting Beck
at darsiebeck@yahoo.com or 6690745. 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, July
26, at Waterworks Studio, and 10
a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, July 28, at
Point Robinson. The class will be
repeated in August.
Natural Dyeing: Laurel Boyajian of Local Color Dye Gardens
& Studio will offer the workshop
Summer Flowers and Eucalyptus
either Friday and Saturday, July 27
and 28, or Saturday and Sunday,
July 28 and 29, at Common Thread.
Email laurel070@gmail.com to
register or sign up at the store. The

workshop will be offered on the
dates that work for most people.
Fearless Watercolor Painting:
Geri Peterson will lead intermediate students in color choices and
combinations. The fee is $35.
Register at the senior center. 1 to 4
p.m. Thursdays, Aug. 2 to Sept. 13,
at Vashon Senior Center.
Vashon Community Vacation
Bible School: Young people will
learn about God through Bible
stories, music, crafts and skits.
First- through sixth-graders will
meet at the Methodist Church
from 9:30 a.m. to noon. Youth
from Maple Valley Presbyterian
Church will lead the program. Call
Carol Potter at 463-6749 with any
questions. Children ages 3, 4 and
5 will meet at the Presbyterian
Church from 9:45 to 11:45 a.m.
Vashon teens, led by Tona Parrish,
will lead those classes. Call her for
more information at 463-5066.
Registration forms are available
at all area churches, or people
can register on the first day. The
suggested registration fee is
$15 per child or $25 per family;
scholarships are available. The
Bible school runs Monday through
Friday, Aug. 6 to 10.
Plein-Air/Impressionist Landscape Painting: Charles Philip
Brooks will teach the class for ages
15 and older. The cost is $150,
and basic supplies are required.
Register at www.ignitionartists.
com. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays
in August. Locations will be given
with registration.

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Tuesday and 5IVSTEBZ 8:30 p.m. Watch a six-minute highlights version of
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Island Child
Ky Burton of Boy Scout
Troop 294 passed his Eagle
Board of Review to become
the Troopâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 76th Eagle
Scout.
Ky designed and built trail
signs at Burton Acres Park
to guide walkers and runners through the maze of
trails. Ky had help from
many of his fellow Scouts
and said he could not
have completed the project
without the guidance of his
many mentors.
At left are Assistant
Scoutmaster Ed Zapel,
Ky Burton and Assistant
Scoutmaster Steve Kicinski.

Please have your insurance information when you call and bring a picture ID
and Insurance/Medicare/Medicaid cards to the appointment.
Thank you for partnering with us in the fight against breast cancer.

On the Fourth of July, the Mad Scientists Club, a group of girls ages 10 to 14 who are interested
in science, held a bake sale at the Point Robinson Low Tide Festival. The sale was a great success, and the girls donated more than half of their proceeds to Vashon Island Pet Protectors and
the fundraising drive to purchase a new digital film projector for the Vashon Theatre.
Above, left to right, are Kate Lande, Kate Kelly, Hannah Spranger, Stella Harrison and Ellie
Lande.

ISLAND GROUPS GET GRANTS FOR UPGRADES: Two arts groups on
Vashon will be purchasing new equipment soon, after receiving King Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 4Culture
grants. UMO Ensemble received $2,700 from the agency for a free-standing aerial rig, and
Vashon Allied Arts got $2,800 for audio and ticket sales equipment.

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Open Air: Flights of fancy at Open Space

Artists will defy gravity at second
annual outdoor aerial fest

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rt and people will go flying
through space this weekend
at the Open Space for Arts &
Community.

On Saturday, the venue will present its second annual edition of Open Air â&#x20AC;&#x201D; an event
organizers describe as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;light, bright outdoor
aerial festival with a splash of circus.â&#x20AC;?
At the same time, audience members will
be able to wander indoors to see an adventurous new site-specific sculpture installed in
the Grand Hall of the Open Space building.
Open Air, scheduled to start at 4 p.m.
Saturday, will take place in Open Spaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
outdoor meadow, and if it is a clear day, audiences will get a majestic view of Mt. Rainier
along with the afternoonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s entertainment.
Featured performers â&#x20AC;&#x201D; veterans of
Moisture Festival and Teatro Zinzanni â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
will include Kari Podgorski, who performs
as the character Miss Sally Pepper. Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll fly
high above the crowd, performing on an trapeze apparatus called the cloud swing.
Cherie Carson, from San Franciscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
UpSwing Performance Company, will treat
the audience to â&#x20AC;&#x153;Snowbirds,â&#x20AC;? a rope and harness piece featuring Elizabeth Milne-Kahn
and Cara Zeisloft. The piece features stage
magic including the illusion of real snow
drifting down onto the stage.
Local aerialists Janet McAlpin, Lynelle
Sjoberg, Lisa Elliot and David Godsey are
also on the roster, along with students of all
ages including Esther Edelmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s adult students and youth from the UMO School of
Physical Arts.
Admission to the show is a suggested
donation of $8 for adults and $3 for kids, but

organizers said no one will be turned away
for lack of funds. Attendees are encouraged
to bring blankets for seating, and picnic baskets are also welcome at the event.
On Sunday, guest artists Cherie Carson
and Kari Podgorski will offer workshops for
students age 12 an older, in rope and harness,
and cloud swing for beginners, at Open Space.
The new site-specific sculpture, â&#x20AC;&#x153;No
Conspiracy, Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Reality,â&#x20AC;? will also be on view
on Saturday, during â&#x20AC;&#x153;Open Air.â&#x20AC;?
The large-scale kinetic art sculpture,
by artists Jon Carlson and Dave Olson, is
inspired by Rube Goldberg. Open Space
staffers promise thrills and chills for viewers
as it descends from the spaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rafters, creating noise and excitement on a one-minute
journey that features a zipline, bowling balls,
chimes, a roller coast ramp, a teeter-totter,
and an ascending planet Earth.
The artwork was commissioned by Open
Space co-founded Janet McAlpin, and funded by a grant from King Countyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 4Culture
program for site-specific artworks.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Performancesâ&#x20AC;? of the sculpture last
approximately two minutes, after which time
the sculpture will be reset for future performances.
Viewings will also take place on First
Friday, Aug. 3.
â&#x20AC;&#x201D;Elizabeth Shepherd
Open Space for Arts & Community is located at 18870 103rd Ave S.W. Doors open
for Open Air at 3 p.m. Saturday. Visit www.
openspacevashon.org for more information
and register for Open Air workshops at
info@openspacevashon.com.

Guitarist Ken Jacobsen will play a
classical guitar concert at 7:30 p.m.
Friday at Vashon Island Musicâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s studio,
located above the store. Jacobsen will
play music by the Spanish composer
Isaac Albeniz, Brazilian music by Heitor
Villa-Lobos, a lute suite by J.S. Bach
and a new transcription of Erik Satieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 3
Gymnopedies, featuring Jason Everett
on seven-string bass.
Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for
students.

Several concerts are coming up. So put
on your dancing shoes and check out
what Vashon has to offer over the coming weeks.

The American Night, a Doors tribute
band, will light the night on fire at 9
p.m. Friday at the Red Bicycle Bistro.
The concert will include authentic

Lynelle Sjoberg and Leah Mann perform at last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Open Air event.

This show has a $5 cover at the door and
is open to all ages until 11 p.m., and 21
and older after that.

COMING UP:
LOTS OF MUSIC
Seattle reggae music veteran Adrian
Xavier will play at free show at 7 p.m.
Thursday at Ober Park â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the latest in
a free outdoor summer concert series
presented by Vashon Allied Arts and the
Vashon Park District.
Xavier and his band members create
a danceable blend of reggae, soul,
hip hop and rock â&#x20AC;&#x201D; centered around
themes of pacifism and environmental
awareness. As a member of Pure Water
Band, Xavier opened for Bob Marley and
The Wailers and Jimmy Cliff.
To find out more about the music, visit
www.adrianxavier.com.

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Adrian Xavier is coming to town.
instruments, costumes and psychedelic
lighting â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all aimed at recreating the
experience of a live Doors concert.
Nate Christian will channel Jim Morrison,
the leader of this once-famous and
quintessential American rock band of
the late 60s.

Correo Aereo, an award-winning Latin
and world music duo, will perform a free
show at 7 p.m. Friday at Vashon Island
Coffee Roasterie.
Abel Rocha and Madeleine Sosin, who
make up the duo, have an array of skills.
Rocha plays harp, guitar, cuatro and
quinta huapanguera. Sosin plays violin,
maracas, bombo and jarana. They have
performed at festivals, theaters and
music venues throughout the world,
and have been featured on several
radio programs, including All Things
Considered, Democracy Now and Latino
USA.

The evening will also feature a wine tasting with Vashon Wine Clubâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Ron Irvine.
Membership in the club is free and
includes a $1 discount on the wine tasting. Wine by the glass will also be available. Visit www.vashonwineclub.org.

Those who fancy the old-fashioned art
form of a Sunday dinner on the church
grounds wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to miss St. John
Vianneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s annual Salmon Bake, scheduled for 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Sunday. The
afternoon of alder-cooked salmon and
other delicious foods will also include
live music by the Vashon band, Loose
Change, and plenty of kidâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s activities.
Tickets are $15 for adults and teens, and
$5 for kids aged 5 to 12.
Save the evening of Monday, Aug. 6, for
the kick-off a series of concerts which
will bring folk music and dancing to Ober
Park. The first concert will feature Jesse
Lege, Joel Savoy & The Cajun Country
Revival â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a group that plays authentic
music from Louisiana and Texas.
The dances will continue on Monday
nights in August. On Aug. 13, the
Hungarian group Duvo Ensemble will
play, and on Aug. 20, Dromeno, a Greek
ensemble, will take the stage. Folk dances will be taught each evening.

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STRAWBERRY
FESTIVAL
2012
The Grand Parade
Vashonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2012 Strawberry Festival was kicked off by the Grand
Parade, a dazzling and delightful affair that made its way through
town Saturday morning under a pleasantly hazy sky. Emma NewbyLetestu with the garden club (left) showed her passion for dirt. A
radiant bride, Emily Belshaw, and her son Florian (right) marched in
support of Ref. 74, an effort to keep the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new gay marriage law
intact. And young clowns (above) demonstrated their ability to find
their inner calm amid the chaos of crowds and shopping baskets.
A few Islanders noted that this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s parade was completely homegrown. No off-Island groups joined the festivities â&#x20AC;&#x201D; making it, they
noted, a totally Vashon spectacle.
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As in years past, the parade
included artistry, flair and an
occasional political statement.
Dr. Michael Kappelman
(right) was part of a mime
group quietly advocating for
vaccinations and an end to
whooping cough. Bill Jarcho
(center), a puppeteer, demonstrated his abilities to tame
a huge, wild chicken. And
Arlette Moody (far right)
danced her way down the
street followed by a group of
young stilt walkers.

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This indispensable resource includes
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STREET SCENES
Art, cars, dances, rides and
a new unofficial mayor
The festival â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a full weekend of fun â&#x20AC;&#x201D; included a
classic car parade on Sunday, where gleaming Chevys
mixed it up with classy T-birds and MGs. Among
those in the parade were Lou Engels and his family;
Lou, who was spotted in his sonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Impala, was this
yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s grand marshal.
Music was also a big part of the festival. Musicians of
every stripe took to a variety of stages, some pumping
out high-octane rock, others performing solo. Several,
such as the Portage Fill Big Band (right), got Islanders
to their feet.
The festival always has something new. This year, that
meant a tiny petting zoo next to AJâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Espresso (far
right), where kids could enter a gated area and pet
goats, hold a rabbit and cuddle with baby ducks.
The festival draws an estimated 30,000 visitors, and
this year was no exception. Thanks to balmy weather,
the festival was packed. Children ate cotton candy;
strawberry sundaes and curly fries were in abundance; booths were stocked with colorful clothes and
artful bags; and the Beer Garden stayed open late.

Hilary Emmer (far left) won this
yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unofficial mayor, raising a
whopping $7,100 for two causes
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the Dental Van, which visits
Vashon to provide dental care
to children and adults who canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t
afford it, and medical vouchers,
a new program that offers funds
to low-income families to get
preventative health care from the
provider of their choice. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Think of
this as single payer health care for
Vashon residents,â&#x20AC;? she said.
Art, meanwhile, was on display
at Ober Park, where Vashon artisans sold everything from photographs and jewelry to pottery and
origami. One popular spot was
Lisa Betzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stand (left) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a display of colorful mosaic art pieces
and jewelry.

And the 2012 Winners Are... Babes&Broads Catsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;n Dog s

Chris Healy
Babes 5 and under
Special thanks to all who participated
and voted in this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s contest.
All proceeds went to Seeds 4 Success.

POOL PARTY: Shape Up Vashon and the Vashon Park District invite all Islanders to a pool
party. There will be games, races, prizes and fun. Bring a picnic, and try swimming in a survival
suit. Free for SUV members and kids accompanied by parents or grandparents, and $5 for all
others. 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 9. For more information, see www.shapeupvashon.org.

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Masters rowers score multiple wins across the border
By JEFF HOYT
For The Beachcomber

Rowing on a lake that until recently was
choked with silt and lily pads, the Vashon
Island Rowing Club masters dredged up a
large shovel-full of hardware at last weekendâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cascadia Masters Championship in
Vancouver, B.C. VIRC rowed to four goldmedal finishes on Burnaby Lake, along
with five silvers and three bronze.
A highlight of the weekend for VIRC was
a dominating performance by the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
quad, which raised eyebrows along the
shore by flying off the line and walking on the field with open water at the
sprint. The quad featured Kim Goforth in
stroke, with Holly Zapel, Su DeWalt and
Lisa Huggenvik.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Conibear (a Seattle team) tried to make
a move on us at 500, but we held them off
with a surge,â&#x20AC;? said Huggenvik, who coxed
the quad from her bow seat, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and then once
I called us up at the 250, we pushed out
ahead and that was that.â&#x20AC;?
The most compelling race of the weekend was a parent-child double event, which
Chad Magnuson entered with his son Gus,
a Vashon juniors champion rower who
didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even arrive in Vancouver until 3 a.m.
Sunday morning due to a lengthy train
delay in Seattle. Fatigue was not a factor,
however, as the Magnusons staged a furious sprint at 38 strokes per minute to beat
a combo in the next lane that featured a
member of Canadaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Olympic gold-medal
winning eight.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I screwed up our start, but then we led
from a hundred meters on,â&#x20AC;? said Chad, the
elder Magnuson. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Gus has so much horsepower, it was a thrill just to keep up with
him. I was beaming all the way through
the sprint.â&#x20AC;?
Also winning gold at Cascadia was
Vashonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s four, with Bruce Morser
in stroke, Colby Atwood, Bob Horsley and
Ed Zapel, with Vashon juniors freshman

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Vashonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s masters womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quad coasts to the finish line in its heat. Later that day, the women took gold with open water on the remainder of the
field. From left, Lisa Huggenvik, Su DeWalt, Holly Zapel and Kim Goforth.
coxswain Ally Clevenger steering Vashon
to an open-water, first-place finish. The
four Vashon rowers, averaging 55 years old,
finished the 1,000-meter course just twohundredths of a second slower than the
35-year-old lineup that won the menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s open
four earlier in the day.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Basically, I got soaked during that race,â&#x20AC;?
said Clevenger, who was coxing in her
first masters regatta. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It took a while to
get the boat together but then it just really
moved.â&#x20AC;?
Clevenger, who chose coxing after being
inspired by a video of former Vashon junior
Olivia Sayvetz (now a sophomore coxswain
at Princeton), was busy all weekend. She
coxed six medal-winning boats, including second-place finishes in crowded fields
for both the Vashon mixed and menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

eights, along with two other races in which
Canadian clubs â&#x20AC;&#x153;borrowedâ&#x20AC;? her services.
She also spent hours learning the finer
points of how to adjust oars and prep boats
under the tutelage of coach Richard Parr.
Rounding out Vashonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s gold-medal finishes was a mixed four lineup of Scott
Engelhard, Kim Goforth, Holly Zapel and
Bob Horsley, who left no doubt on the water
that Vashon would not be denied. Another
VIRC entry also took third in the same
event.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;All in all, we had a pretty good weekend,â&#x20AC;? said Parr. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing a lot of the
basic things right; we just need a lot more
time racing.â&#x20AC;?
Parr pointed out that Vashonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s masters
havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t raced since April, but for many of
the clubs in attendance, Cascadia was the

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culmination of a long racing season.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve really liked what Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been seeing
in practice,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Now itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all about
continuing to put it all together out on the
race course.â&#x20AC;?
This was the third year for the Cascadia
Masters Championship and the first true
regatta to be held on Burnaby Lake in
Vancouver since 1986. Formerly the site of
the Canada Summer Games, it took a recent
$20 million dredging project to clear the
lake of its invasive vegetation, restoring the
site once again into a high-quality rowing
venue. Cascadia Registration Coordinator
Cinda Ewton said there were more than
twice as many total entries for this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
regatta than the 2011 event.

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Hundreds of fast runners, family members cross the Burby finish line
By GLENNA MILESON
For The Beachcomber

Spectators cheered as former
track coach Russ Brazill fired the
gun to start the 32nd annual Bill
Burby Inspirational Fun Run on
Saturday, leaving athletes just
enough time to finish the race
before heading to the Strawberry
Festival Grand Parade.
This year nearly 400 people participated in the 10K run, 5K run
and 5K walk.
Scott Healey, 37, was first across
the finish line for the fourth year
in a row, winning the overall 5K
run with a time of 16:30, a pace
of 5:19 per mile. Graham Peet, 15,
followed in second place with a
time of 16:40 and Jacob Huisingh,
17, took third with a time of 17:05.
Shuichi Komatsuzaki, 24, took
first in the 10K, finishing in 38:57,
a pace of 6:17 per mile. Robert
Ripley, 51, placed second with a
time of 39:07, followed by Kevin
Ross, 39, in third at 39:40.
Only a fraction of a second sep-

arated the first and second place
winners of the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 10K race.
With a time of 41:43.2, Christine
Mosley, 27, claimed first, and second place went to Carey Lyons,
19, with a time of 41:43.6. Megan
Hatch, 26, took third at 44:23.
First place in the womenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 5K
race went to
Michelle Neal,
49, with a time
For full race
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place went to
Katrina Mares,
28, with a time
of 23:24. Kate Cunningham, 41,
took third with her time of 24:02.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Burbyâ&#x20AC;? has become a festival tradition for many island families, whether they run, walk or
cheer from the sidelines.
Nealâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s son Alex Williams said
he remembers that his mom used
to win a lot when he was growing up.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;They used to have skis for
prizes and when I wanted a new
pair I would just tell mom that
she should go win a pair for me,â&#x20AC;?

Nealâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughter, Enya Pooler,
9, took second in her age group
in the 5K behind her friend, Meg
Cunningham, also 9.
Pooler was easy to spot decked
out in hot pink from head to toe.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dressing crazy makes me feel
better,â&#x20AC;? she said before the race, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I
get all pumped up.â&#x20AC;?
Vashon High School volleyball coach and teacher Kara Sears
joined in the 5K walk, pushing
17-month-old Colton. Her husband Andy Sears, a VHS basketball coach and teacher, helps organize the event each year.
Due to a printing error, sponsor
logos did not appear on the back of
this yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s T-shirts.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;We count on our sponsors to
make this event happen,â&#x20AC;? said
Andy Sears, â&#x20AC;&#x153;we want them to
know how much we appreciate
them and feel awful that this
happened.â&#x20AC;?
Proceeds go to support Vashon
High School athletics and an
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Scott Healy (282) the 5K winner and Graham Peet (208), who took second
in the 5K, run at the beginning of the race.
he said.
Neal recalls the first time
Williams participated in the race.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I carried him in a backpack
while I ran,â&#x20AC;? she said with a laugh.

This year, for the first time since
they both started running in the
event, Williams edged out his
mom in the 5K race, beating her
by just under 12 seconds.

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medical and dental insurance and will provide me an opportunity to put enough aside
for retirement.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was something I had to do in the
interest of my future,â&#x20AC;? Maaz added.
News of Maazâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s departure hit some
members of Vashonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s social services community hard. Many admire Maaz, a warm
and easy-going man whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s considered a
sharp and focused administrator as well.
He also plays a lead role on Vashon: He
heads the Social Services Network, a new
coalition of organizations working in concert to ensure a range of Island needs is
met. And heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on the board of the Chamber
of Commerce, the Vashon Island Rotary
and K2 Commons.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Losing him is going to be devastating,â&#x20AC;?
said Emma Amiad, who heads the Interfaith
Council to Prevent Homelessness and is

active in the Social Services Network.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been exceptional. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m sure everything will keep moving forward. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m just
disappointed,â&#x20AC;? she said.
Maaz, she added, has shown considerable
leadership both at VYFS and on the Social
Services Network. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ken is fearless,â&#x20AC;? she
said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;He says what heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s thinking. He lays
out exactly what the path should be. And
he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sweat the small stuff.â&#x20AC;?
At VYFS, board members and employees
also said they were extremely sorry to see
Maaz go.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re deeply disappointed,â&#x20AC;? said George
Butler, who chairs the VYFS board.
Maaz, he said, has a blend of skills that
worked beautifully at VYFS, a complex
organization that receives an array of public funds, private funds and fees for services
â&#x20AC;&#x201D; all systems that require different kinds
of reporting.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;It takes someone who can work their way
through a fairly complex series of grants
and reporting requirements, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one
special skill Ken has,â&#x20AC;? Butler said.

Equally important, Butler added, under
Maaz staff morale has grown at VYFS,
where people are â&#x20AC;&#x153;very hard working and
grossly underpaid.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an enormous loss. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no question about it,â&#x20AC;? Butler said.
VYFS, with a budget of $1.15 million and
a staff of 10 full-time employees and 15 parttime employees, has grown during Maazâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s
brief tenure. It now runs Vashon Kids, a
before- and after-school child care program.
PlaySpace, in the former YMCA building
just north of town, is now owned by VYFS
and offers a suite of programs and services.
The agency is also more active in the
public schools, working closely with administrators on programs to prevent youth substance abuse. And the number of counseling sessions with the agencyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s therapists has
increased: In 2009, VYFS provided 3,300
sessions; this year, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on track to provide
4,500 sessions, Maaz said.
One of its biggest projects involves a
federal drug-free communities grant, overseen by a coalition housed at VYFS. Luke

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McQuillin, who heads the effort for VYFS,
said he, too, is sorry Maaz is leaving but
doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think it will hurt the efforts of the
coalition, called the Vashon Alliance to
Reduce Substance Abuse (VARSA).
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to miss him greatly. But we
wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t fall over a cliff,â&#x20AC;? McQuillin said.
Maaz came to VYFS in June 2010, drawn
here in part because of his strong connections to Vashon. His sister and other family members live here. Indeed, he lived on
Vashon for several years while commuting
to a job in Tacoma.
He now plans to move back to Tacoma â&#x20AC;&#x201D;
he owns a condo there â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and will commute
to Enumclaw. But he said he hopes that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll
be back often, and, when he does, he thinks
he might be able to more fully embrace
Island life. As VYFSâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s executive director,
he said, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worked many weekends and
nights.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Vashon has always been a special place
to me. ... I hope to come over on weekends
and enjoy all the things I love about this
place, more than I do now,â&#x20AC;? he said.

makes for good exercise.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;You can paddle around and enjoy the calm water, or
if you really want to, it can be a great core workout,â&#x20AC;? she
said.
Islander Wilson Abbot, an avid windsurfer who sometimes sails or kayaks, said that in recent years he has taken
to stand-up paddleboarding for its simplicity. Abbott, 64,
said he first saw paddleboarders at a beach on Whidbey
Island. He likes that paddleboarding doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t rely on the
wind, he said, and he has found the board he purchased to
be much easier to transport than a kayak. His favorite spot
to paddle is KVI Beach.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;I liked the idea that with paddleboarding I didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to
be confined to a cockpit or a kayak,â&#x20AC;? he said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I could stand
on it, sit down and paddle or lay on it and float around if I
wanted. â&#x20AC;Ś I like the minimalist sort of aspect.â&#x20AC;?
Susan McCabe, program director at the Vashon Park
District, said that last summer a surprising number of
people told the park district they wished they could try
paddleboarding at its Jensen Point kayak center. McCabe
herself tried paddleboarding in Los Angeles before ordering boards for the district. She called the sport â&#x20AC;&#x153;challenging
without being terrifying.â&#x20AC;?
â&#x20AC;&#x153;At first I was afraid to fall in,â&#x20AC;? she added. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I fell in once,
and after that I had a great time.â&#x20AC;?
The kayak centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two new boards â&#x20AC;&#x201D; big and sturdy at
10 and 11 feet long â&#x20AC;&#x201D; have been popular so far, said Pam
Wise, who runs the center. Beginners usually stick close
to the shore, she said, but sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also been surprised to see
paddleboarders keep up with kayakers.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been a real happy-making thing for our customers,â&#x20AC;? Wise said.
Whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most surprising to Wise, though, is the range in
ages of paddleboarders. Teens seem to love the boards, she
said, but older people get out there as well. Just last week,
she said, a man who looked to be in his 70s rented one.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;He got on it and went out and had a great time,â&#x20AC;? Wise
said.
Frequent paddleboarders, however, say they wish more
Islanders would join them on the water. Abbott said he
hardly ever sees paddlers at Vashon beaches, and Groth
said that notices she posted at both CafĂŠ Luna and the
Burton Coffee Stand seeking a paddling partner got no
responses.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;If there were more paddleboarders on the Island, it
would be fun to have a race or do something,â&#x20AC;? she said.
Croonquist, however, said paddleboarding is still catching on. More and more of her friends, she said, are begging
to go out on the boards.
â&#x20AC;&#x153;If you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have one you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t really think about it,â&#x20AC;? she
said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But when you see one out there, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I want
to try that.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?
The Vashon Kayak Center offers paddleboards to rent for
$15 an hour. The cost includes a paddle, wetsuit, leash
and lifejacket. The boards can be reserved in advance by
calling the kayak center at 463-9257.

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June 17: A garbage can at
the Sunrise Ridge baseball
fields burned after a fire
was started in it.
June 22: Power tools were
stolen from an unlocked
shed on the 8200 block of
Quartermaster Drive.
An individual at the
Village Green was found to
possess marijuana.
June 24: A juvenile runaway was reported.
June 27: An individual
on the 1400 block of 140th
Street reported that a friend

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Gilchrist Cruse
Born February 15, 1921 in Taloga, OK, Almeda, 90,
died April 15, 2011 in Federal Way, WA. Raised in
Oklahoma, she married Wilke Cruse in 1955 in Denver,
CO. After living many places they settled in West Seattle.
They built a home on Vashon Island, living there 20 plus
years.
Predeceased by her husband, Wilke, Almeda is survived
by her sons, Keith Gilchrist (Barbara) and Kendall
Gilchrist (Bonnie) and her daughter, Karen Carpenter
(Chuck); five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
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2012, 1-3pm at 434 SW 297th, Federal Way, 98023.
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stole his or her vehicle then
moved across the country.
June 28: A kayak was
stolen from a commercial
building on the 12100 block
of Cemetery Road. Wire
and metal have been stolen
there in the past.
June 30: An unlocked
home on the 1720 block of
107th Avenue was broken
into. Nothing was stolen.
July 1: An individual vandalized a wall at the Vashon
Pharmacy with a marker
then ran from police.
July 2: Domestic violence
was reported at a home on
the north end. The suspect
slapped the victim in the
face with an open hand.
July 3: A lawn mower was
stolen from a driveway on the
17400 block of Paige Lane.
July 4: Juveniles setting
off fireworks accidentally
started a brush fire at KVI
Beach. They extinguished
the fire themselves.
July 5: Items were stolen from a vehicle parked
at Vashon Self Storage. The
owner spent several months
in Arizona and recently
returned to find the items
missing.
A home and outbuildings
on the 10200 block of Cove

Road were burglarized
while residents were watching Fourth of July fireworks.
The suspect reportedly ransacked the home.
July 6: A home on the
17300 block of 90th Avenue
was burglarized.
Ongoing thefts were
reported at a 15-acre property on the 21200 block of
Westside Highway. Items
have been stolen from both
a building there and the
surrounding acreage.
July 7: A mailbox on the
11800 block of 220th Street
was exploded by a firecracker. The mailbox was
completely flattened.
Island Insurance was
broken into. The suspect
entered the building by
breaking a window, and
nothing was stolen.
July 9: A garden area at
Misty Isle Farms on 220th
Street was vandalized.
July 10: An individual
was assaulted by a transient
outside Vashon Market.
The victim was struck on
the side of the head with a
closed fist.
July 11: A lawn mower
was stolen from an unlocked
shed on the 24300 block of
47th Avenue.

Florence Eleanor Bickle

Born to Walter
and Nellie Doyle
on October 4,
1918 in Aberdeen,
Washington, Florence grew up on
Vashon Island and
remained there
until 1985 when
she moved with
her husband to
Puyallup, WA.
Florence attended the University of Washington, Peterson Business College and over the
years was employed by a legal firm in Seattle,
Brunswick, Puget Sound Power and Light, and
Boeing.
In 1942, she married Monty Bickle and they
had two daughters, Marcy and Bobbie. Florence
was a very sweet and kind person who was loved
by everyone who knew her. She enjoyed sewing,
baking, reading, traveling by air and having coffee with friends.
Florence is preceded in death by her father in
1927, her mother in 1971 and her husband in
2000. She is survived by her daughters, Marcy
Maxwell (Vancouver, WA) and Bobbie Smith
(Gig Harbor, WA), son in law, Ed Maxwell, four
granddaughters, and ten great grandchildren.
Florence passed away peacefully, surrounded
by her family, on Sunday, June 17th at the age
of 93.
Donations may be made to Southwest Washington Hospice or Humane Society for SW
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A man pulled over near
the intersection of Soper
Road and 90th Avenue was
found to be driving with a
suspended license. He was
also found to possess drug
paraphernalia.
Property was stolen from
a unlocked room at Vashon
Community Care.
July 12: Aluminum metalwork stolen from the
Vashon Park District was
found and returned.
July 13: A traffic complaint was filed about vehicles speeding near the inter-

section of Dock Street and
160th Street.
An 18 year old pulled
over near the intersection
of Vashon Highway and
Pillsbury Road had alcohol
on his or her breath and ran
from police.
July 14: A woman turned
over two small bags of marijuana to the Vashon SubStation. The marijuana was
taken from her son.
July 15: A greenhouse on
the 10800 block of Bank
Road was vandalized.
Windows were broken.

Donald Ivan Douglas Jr.
Donald Ivan Douglas
Jr. devoted and loving
husband and father was
born on April 3rd, 1960.
Don was returned to his
beloved Lord on July
18th, 2012. He passed
away suddenly from
heart complications.
He graduated from
Vashon High School in
Washington state in 1978. He was active in Scouts.
He went to the Dockton Community Church. He
was married to Jana Montgomery for 31 years. They
have five children together residing in West Seattle
and then moved to Draper, Utah to help start South
Mountain Community Church in 1998. He was
a devoted follower of Jesus Christ. He worked in
Industrial Safety and Insurance Sales. He is deeply
loved and greatly missed. He is remembered for his
loving and caring manner as well as wonderful sense
of humor.
Don was preceded in death by his father, Donald
Ivan Douglas, mother, Dollie Douglas, father-inlaw, Don Montgomery and brother-in-law Arnold
Bruce Lewis. He is survived by his loving wife Jana,
mother-in-law, Marcia Montgomery, his children,
Rheanna, Lauren, Aundra, Jackson, Evee and 3
granddaughters as well as 7 siblings; brothers:
James Estes and wife Sharon, Robert Douglas and
wife Lorna, sisters: Sharon Lawson and husband
Paul, Sandra Lewis, Charr Douglas, Sheree Tomoson and husband Tim, Shirley Douglas, sister-in-law
Dianne Chiswell and husband Tim, brother-in-law
Phil Montgomery and wife Cle, 9 nephews, 8 nieces,
many cousins, and countless friends. Memorial service held in Draper, Utah ~ Wednesday, July 25th at
11:45 a.m. at South Mountain Community Church,
14216 S. Bangerter Pkwy. Service in Vashon TBD
at a later date. Condolences or donations to help the
family can be sent to his wife Jana, 144035 Bridgefield, Draper, Utah 84020.

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VASHON ISLAND

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Jean
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206/919-5223
Â&#x2039;4.75 AC
Â&#x2039;4 bdrm

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Whether you dream of an Island farm or simply want to soak
up sunshine & pastoral views, this is the place! Roomy,
immaculate, near Seattle ferries. MLS #383448 $399,000

3 bdrmÂ&#x2039;2.5 bathÂ&#x2039;5 AC

Pristine privacy on the Westside AND near
ferries! Spacious home with a great floor
plan, garage with shop/studio plumbed for
3/4 bath. MLS #372158 $647,500